Tuesday, January 14, 2014

With A&E Network facing an avalanche of public protest and in
just over one week of its decision to place family-patriarch Phil
Robertson on “indefinite hiatus” from its megahit reality series Duck Dynasty, the network caved.

When the PC outrage industry went into high gear
with an angry Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
demanding Robertson’s head regarding his comments on homosexuality in an
article by Drew Magery in the January 2014 issue of GQ (the magazine commonly viewed as having branded the concept of “metrosexual”),
A&E executives promptly suspended Robertson from the enormously
popular, cable-TV program, and support for his suspension echoed
throughout the conventional media with cries of his being “homophobic”
and “antigay.”

Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Erick Erickson and Michelle Malkin
have a new publisher in Washington today, the expanding Christian
conservative media empire of Salem Communications Corp., recently dubbed
"the new power in conservative media."

Salem on Monday completed the purchase of Eagle Publishing, which
operates Regnery, the nation's leading conservative book publisher;
Human Events, one of the oldest conservative news providers; and the
popular website RedState, headed by Erickson. Two other properties,
Eagle Financial Publications and Eagle Wellness, were included. No price
was provided to Secrets.

The move gives Salem, already a huge force in conservative radio and
Christian broadcasting and publishing, an immediate and powerful
presence in the nation's capital, where Eagle and Regnery have long
ruled the right's publishing roost. Among Regnery's best-selling authors
are Limbaugh, Ed Klein, Malkin, Dinesh D’Souza, Mark Levin, Laura
Ingraham and Newt Gingrich.

It also gives some financial stability to Eagle's properties, including Human Events, which recently ended its print edition.

President Obama has problems with credibility, as the world well knows after he disingenuously insisted, “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan” about two dozen times in public.

Now, it turns out, the Democrat most political observers believe will try to replace Obama as president apparently also has problems telling the truth.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about Benghazi, a congressman who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Libya told WND.

In 2012, there were an estimated 8,975,438 property crime offenses in the nation. The 2-year trend showed that property crime declined 0.9 percent in 2012 when compared to the 2011 estimate. The 10-year trend showed that property crime offenses declined 14.1 percent in 2012 when compared to the 2003 estimate.

In 2012, the rate of property crime was estimated at 2,859.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, a 1.6 percent decrease when compared to the 2011 estimated rate. The 2012 property crime rate was 11.1 percent less than the 2008 estimate and 20.4 percent less than the 2003 estimate. (See Tables 1 and 1A.)

Of all property crimes in 2012, larceny-theft accounted for 68.5 percent. Burglary accounted for 23.4 percent and motor vehicle theft for 8.0 percent.

A retired Tampa police capitan was charged with second-degree murder
on Monday for shooting two people in a movie theater after an
altercation over texting, the Associated Pressreports.

Authorities in Pasco County Florida say that 71-year-old Curtis
Reeves shot Chad Oulson and his wife Nichole during a screening of the
Mark Wahlberg movie Lone Survivor after an argument that stemmed from Reeves asking Ouslon to stop texting.

Reeves reportedly shot the couple at Cobb Theater’s Grove 16 in
Wesley Chapel, Fla. near Tampa, before being subdued by an
onlooker According to the AP, Chad Oulson, 43,was shot in his chest and
his wife was shot in her hand.. Chad was pronounced dead at a nearby
hospital, while his wife was injured but will survive.

Imagine if unelected federal bureaucrats from the IRS ordered HSLDA
and similar organizations to never hold another nonpartisan voter
registration drive, or said that it was illegal for HSLDA to mention the
name of a local, state, or federal elected official 30 days before a
primary or 60 days before a general election.

Imagine no longer. The IRS, in keeping with its annual attempt to be
considered America’s favorite government bureaucracy, issued a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking on Friday, November 29, 2013 (the day after
Thanksgiving!) seeking public comments on this draconian proposal.

HSLDA is incorporated as a 501(c)(4) organization. The 501(c)(4)
status has existed since 1959. In fact, ever since the income tax was
first established in 1913, the federal government included exemptions
from federal income taxes for organizations which “promote social
welfare.” This is because our government for the longest time has
recognized that it is healthy for democracy for Americans to band
together into organizations to speak with one voice about an issue. The
NRA, the Sierra Club, the ACLU, and thousands of other organizations
from every political affiliation are all 501(c)(4) organizations.

Forced Silence

With this proposed rule, however, the IRS—and our federal
government—has taken the position that it is against public policy for
organizations to communicate with their membership and the public about
what government is doing. If this proposed rule is finalized, countless
organizations will be unable to tell their members what the government
is doing, and how they can make a difference.

In addition, although the proposed rule only applies to 501(c)(4)
organizations such as HSLDA, it will likely impact 501(c)(3) charities
such as churches and many small homeschool support groups.

These
entities are currently allowed to hold nonpartisan voter registration
drives and release nonpartisan voter guides, but if this proposed rule
is finalized, they could be targeted by the IRS next.
On Friday, January 10, HSLDA filed a public comment opposing this
proposed rule. We encourage you to also file a public comment opposing
this proposed rule. Regardless of your political views, it is outrageous
for the federal government to even consider restricting the free speech
rights of American citizens who are part of an organization dedicated
to amplifying their voice on a certain issue.

What You Can Do

Please click here to read HSLDA’s public comments. Then please click here
to go to the Federal Register page to read this proposed rule, and to
file a public comment (look for the green button that says “submit a
formal comment.”) Please note that your name will be public, but you are
not required to include your address.

By law, the IRS is required to read and address every comment. The
more citizens who file public comments, the more Congress, the
administration, the media, and others will take notice of this
unprecedented attack against the First Amendment’s free speech clause.

It is not necessary to identify yourself as a homeschooler. Your
comment can be very simple and merely urge the IRS to reject the
proposed rule as it violates the First Amendment’s Free Speech clause.
Or, you can use the sample text below and add to it as you wish.

Suggested Sample Comment: “I urge the IRS to reject this proposed
rule in its entirety. This proposed rule violates the First Amendment’s
Free Speech Clause. It silences ordinary Americans who join a 501(c)(4)
organization in order to join with other Americans in a common cause. It
makes it harder for ordinary Americans to find out what their
government is doing at the local, state, and federal level. This
proposed rule is unnecessary.”

Since HSLDA was founded in 1983, we have fought for our members and
the homeschool community by ensuring that elected officials leave
homeschool freedom alone. We have also fought for free speech, so that
American citizens can hold their government accountable. We will not
rest until this proposed rule is defeated, either by the IRS withdrawing
it, through congressional action, or in the courts.

The IRS got caught with their pants down last year. So now they
are writing regulations that will allow them to do legally what they
were doing illegally before. Every time you think these people can sink
no lower, they go out of their way to prove you wrong. A cabal of
leftist groups sued the IRS demanding they adopt these regulations,
whereupon the IRS went out of its way to comply. This is a classic set
up. It was probably agreed to in advance between the IRS and the
plaintiffs. Now that they are complying, the leftists have magically
dropped their suit!

Here is how to fight back. The following was written by Cleta
Mitchell, one of the best attorneys in this field. Read it, follow the
instructions and pass them around. The following is reprinted verbatim
with permission:

Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe "Boogy" Ya'alon, is facing criticism from the opposition after slamming U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronotreported earlier on
Tuesday that the outspoken Ya'alon had said that Kerry, who recently
completed his tenth trip to the region in less than a year on the job,
"turned up here determined and acting out of misplaced obsession and
messianic fervor" for a peace deal.

Ya'alon added: "In reality, there have been no negotiations between
us and the Palestinians for all these months --but rather between us and
the Americans.

Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on
Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense
officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with
President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist
attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the
question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the
president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration
officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two
weeks afterward.

An investigation by major Mexican newspaper El Universal
has concluded that the United States government worked with the Sinaloa
cartel from 2000 and 2012 as part of a divide and conquer strategy. In
exchange for intel on rival cartels, the U.S. government allegedly
allowed the cartel to smuggle billions of dollars worth of drugs.

Utah’s voters passed a resolution to not recognize gay marriages within their state. Much like when California also overwhelmingly passed a similar resolution those on the losing side of the issue sued to have the will of the people overturned.

Unlike California, the governor of Utah is not complicit the undermining of his own constituency’s voice and decided to fight the suit.

Initially an activist judge, Roberty Shelby, ruled that gay marriages must be performed in Utah. Roughly 1300 such marriages were allowed to go forward until the Supreme Court finally stepped in to place a stay on the ruling until the appeal of Utah was heard.

This is where corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration decide to get involved.

Eric Holder has released a statement saying that the Federal Government will recognize these marriages even if their state does not.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) today introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2014,
which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their
home state to exercise those rights in any other state that also has
concealed carry laws.

On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia slammed President Barack Obama’s interpretation of the U.S. Constitution during oral arguments over Recess appointments.

The case, National Labor Relations Board vs. Noel Canning, is over
whether the president acted legally when he made a series of temporary
appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was
not conducting business but still gavelling in and out every day.

Russia's powerful Orthodox Church proposed Friday a referendum on
banning gay relations in the face of Western pressure over human rights
ahead of next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The Church's
abrupt intervention came amid a growing debate over whether the Kremlin
should mount a stronger defence of traditional values that many in the
overwhelmingly conservative country view as coming under attack from
Europe and the United States.

Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin
pointed to polls showing more than half of Russians viewing
homosexuality as either an illness or a crime as a sign that the country
was ready to revert to a Soviet-era homosexual ban.

One of the biggest hits of the show so far has been the Tac-Con trigger
group from Tactical Fire Control. With all of the media and industry
insiders blowing through ammo as fast as magazines can be loaded, the
range can get a bit loud. Yet above that constant pop-pop-pop would come
that signature braaaap of a rifle firing very fast. And it
didn’t take long to find it. The booth was full of people trying to get a
look at something they couldn’t even see.

The FBI is not planning to file criminal charges involving the
Internal Revenue Service's extra scrutiny of the Tea Party and other
conservative groups, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing
law enforcement officials.

The newspaper quoted officials as saying that investigators probing
the IRS actions, which unleashed a political furor in Washington, did
not uncover the type of political bias or "enemy hunting" that would
constitute a criminal violation. The evidence showed a mismanaged agency
enforcing rules it did not understand on applications for tax
exemptions, (BS!) the Journal reported.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.